Victor Hugo
sculpture by Rodin, 1886
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- In Auguste Rodin: Discords and triumphs of Auguste Rodin
… of Argentina, and the writers Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, and each of the four monuments was challenged. In Nancy, France, the Claude statue and, in Buenos Aires, the President Sarmiento caused riots. The conflicts over the Victor Hugo and the Balzac were even more serious.
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